follow me:day 4
[Meditate on Jesus’ warning in Luke 14.25-35. Does anything bother you about this warning?]
In the church today, we seem to think that the more people that come the more successful we are. Jesus doesn’t seem to gauge success that way. He seems to desire that people go in all the way with following him. The idea seems to be that we have to jump in with both feet–believing that his way of life is better than my way, my family’s way, etc. I have to be totally committed to wanting to be like Jesus.
Am I willing to exchange my ideas, agendas, dreams, comforts, and the like to embrace Jesus and all that that becomes?
Do I have a sense that it is worth the price?
What am I holding onto that might be preventing me from being completely oriented on being with Jesus so that I can become like Jesus?
Which way of life will make the most lasting impact?
Why does Jesus have to make it so difficult?
What do you think? What are you asking?
Ok, so I am a little bit ahead in my questioning. I was thinking about the message on bread and wondered;
Does this imply that when we ‘break the bread,’ in a sense we are saying that we are going to absorb or take on Jesus’ way of being?
Wow, good question. I suppose that that could be a part of it. It seems like there are so many levels of meaning to it. I know that in the Jewish culture, to offer the cup was an invitation to take on the covenant of a new life. In a Jewish wedding, the groom offers the bride the cup and in drinking it, she is saying that she will embrace everything that the covenant of marriage entails. Essentially, taking on his way of being.